Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1887-09-14

$50 tradition says) OF that 'One at the
breast" Mrs. Kent is a remarkably hale
(. and active woman, a noted pedestrian. Up
TO last year, when she was 81 wears old.
she walked very frequently TO Newbury-
port, six miles, and return before noon
She inherited her activity and endurance
from her mother, Mrs. Rogers, who was a
a celebrated berry woman, who during the
season walked TO Newburyport every other
day with the berries she picked on the al
ternate days. The day she was IS years
old, which was eighteen years ago, she
picked up three quarts of berries in the
morning and started for town. Mr.. Pa
panti, dancing master, who resided in
Newburyport, was one of her customers,
and being aPprised OF her coming went
out TO meet her with his carriage and q
brass band and brought her in triumph to
his house, where she was royalty enter
tanned. He paid her s. for her berries, and
carried her home TO Byfeld.
The second generation, Mrs. Fee, daugh-
ter Of Mrs. Kent, first married James
Gould, through whom the genealogy is
continued. That she is an exceptionally
smart woman goes without saying, when
we consider that although in her seventy
fourth year she works constantly at her
trade, that of dress-maker.
Gould was a giganticGnd powerful man,
and hero in his way, though his weapon
was not the sword, but the scythe. He
was the champion mower for all the re-
gion roundabout, it being a standing say
ing that he could cut more
grnss and drink more rum, and
keep perfectly sober while cutting il,
than any man who ever lived. Three
acres was fair days work for him, and
the story is told, though we haven't the
vouchers handy, that he once cut seven.
Joseph Gould, son Of the above, is what
might be termed n "jack- at-all-trndes,"
though the supplementary clause, good
at nOne," will not apply, for whatever he
undertakes he does well, being q natural
mechanic and skillful with ell kinds Of
tools, though his regular business is in the
shoe factory. He is a gunsmith, lock-
smith, blacksmith and whatever other
smiths there may be. A musician tells us
that he has made very fine violins, which
alone proves his ingenuity and taste. But
his labors are now chiefly OF the past, for
he is unfortunately quite blind and unable
% do any thing requiring careful manipu-
lation. He was a soldier in the late war,
enlisting at the outbreak of the rebellion
in Company b, Nineteenth regiment. His
wife was n Miss Tilley, of Newburyport,
and he now resides at Haverhill.
Henry X. Gould, son of Joseph, formerly
worked in a shoe factory, though he has
lately turned farmer. He is ut present
farming on the historical old Longfellow
place, where the ancestors Of tho poet
lived, and which is still in the name.
Louisa Gould, daughter Of Horny, mar
ricd Newell Rogers, and is the mother of
the babe. He is a farmer, though be thinks
he should do more work If it wasn't for the
young kid, rs it takes up so much of his
time to show her and talk about her TO the
numerous curious visitors who come to pay
their respects to the little prodigy.
The child is healthy, pretty little miss,
and bids fair To be rs long lived and active
as her ancestors. Should she marry as
young as did her mother, or even year
later, and should Mrs. Fee 1.-Two to within
two years of the age OF Mrs. Kent, and all
the intermediate generations be living, as
they are likely TO be, her child would COM
plete another family circle Of six genera
tions, so that a strain might DO developed
in which six generations would be hered-
itary.
Mr.. Rogers, with his girl-wife,-"a pretty
little GIRL" some of the visitors call her
and little Sesto live in a cottage on the
Newburyport road about a mile from
Bytield demo-.